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Having problems with your IBM ThinkPad T42 Notebook ?

I cannot strike the letter s on my other computer

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If the key feels loose it could just be that the key is broken. if you set that key to do a function without {win} or {ctrl} or {fn} the program that you set it in overrides the computer and wont let you use the key for anything else but that command in that program.

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